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  • Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Services

    How we design, build and test recovery systems that protect your business — and prove they work.

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This page covers how Advantage delivers business continuity and disaster recovery as a managed service. If you want to understand the business case and what recovery looks like in practice, visit our outcomes page: Stay Secure. Stay Resilient. Never Lose a Day's Work.
 

What We Do


We design, implement and manage end-to-end business continuity and disaster recovery solutions built on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365. Our approach covers your infrastructure, your cloud services and — critically — your Microsoft 365 data, which is not protected by default.

Every engagement starts with understanding your actual recovery requirements: what systems must come back first, how quickly you need them back and what data loss is acceptable. We then build a solution to meet those requirements — and test it to make sure it does.

The Service in Detail

1. Business Continuity Assessment
Before we recommend anything, we map your current estate and identify the gaps between where you are and where you need to be.

  • Full audit of your current backup, recovery and resilience posture
  • Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) definition
  • Critical system and dependency mapping
  • Gap analysis against NCSC and ISO 22301 guidance
  •  Risk-prioritised remediation roadmap
  • ✦ AI-FIRST  AI-assisted estate scanning automatically identifies unprotected systems, shadow IT and legacy data stores that manual audits typically miss.

2. Microsoft 365 Backup — Advantage CloudVault365™
Microsoft's shared responsibility model means your Microsoft 365 data — emails, Teams conversations, SharePoint files, OneDrive — is not protected against accidental deletion, ransomware encryption or malicious insiders. We fix that.

  • Daily automated backup of all Microsoft 365 workloads
  • Immutable, ransomware-resilient storage — backup data cannot be encrypted or deleted
  • Granular restore: individual emails, files, sites or full mailboxes
  • Retention policies configurable to match your compliance requirements
  • Restore testing included — not just backup confirmation
  • ✦ AI-FIRST   CloudVault365™ includes AI-powered anomaly detection that flags unusual deletion or access patterns before data loss becomes permanent.

3. Azure Infrastructure Backup & Site Recovery
For businesses running workloads on Azure or with on-premises infrastructure, we design and manage multi-layered protection across your full environment.

  • Azure Backup configuration for VMs, databases and file shares
  • Azure Site Recovery for automated failover of critical workloads
  • On-premises to Azure replication and warm standby configuration
  • Recovery vault design and policy management
  • Cross-region redundancy for highest availability requirements

4. Disaster Recovery Plan Design & Documentation
A backup system without a tested recovery plan is false confidence. We produce board-ready documentation your team can actually follow under pressure.

  • Documented DR runbooks for each critical system
  • Incident response and escalation procedures
  • Stakeholder communication templates for crisis scenarios
  • Alignment with your cyber insurance requirements
  • Regular plan reviews as your environment changes

5. DR Testing & Validation
The most dangerous words in disaster recovery are 'we assume it works'. We run scheduled, documented recovery tests and give you evidence.

  • Quarterly failover tests across all protected systems
  • Documented test outcomes and RTO/RPO validation reports
  • Gap identification and remediation from each test cycle
  • Board and audit-ready evidence packs
  • ✦ AI-FIRST   Our AI-assisted recovery orchestration automates test execution, captures timing data and produces variance analysis across test cycles — so you can see whether your RTO is improving over time.

Technology Stack


  • Advantage CloudVault365™ — Microsoft 365 backup and recovery
  • Microsoft Azure Backup — infrastructure and database protection
  • Microsoft Azure Site Recovery — automated failover and replication
  • Microsoft Sentinel — security event monitoring and incident detection
  • Microsoft Defender — endpoint and identity protection

Delivery Model


Business continuity is not a one-off project. We operate as your ongoing BC/DR partner — designing the initial solution, managing it continuously and improving it as your business and threat landscape evolve.

  • Initial assessment and solution design: 2–4 weeks
  • Implementation and configuration: 4–8 weeks depending on scope
  • Ongoing managed service: monthly monitoring, quarterly testing, annual review
  • UK-based delivery and support team throughout

Ideal For


  • Businesses without a tested DR plan
  • Microsoft 365 users without third-party backup
  • Organisations in regulated industries
  • Businesses that have experienced a data loss or near-miss
  • Any SME that needs to meet cyber insurance requirements

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